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STARTING IN JANUARY 2015 THE OKLAHOMA CITY STAMP CLUB IS MOVING ITS REGULAR 1st and 3rd TUESDAY MEETINGS TO ST. LUKE’S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH NW 15th and N. Harvey IN ROOM 207.

THERE IS PARKING ON THE North Side of NW 15th Street or on the West Side of N. Harvey Avenue. If you want to use the elevator to get to the 2nd floor, it is recommended you park in the West Lot and enter through the NW Door to the Church Building. The Elevator will be on your right. Then follow the signs to Room 207. (See map below)

LOTS OF GREAT FOOD

LOTS OF GREAT STAMP COLLECTORS !!

Brady Hunt will be giving a talk on the Butterfield Overland Express in Indian Territory and its 1958 Centennial Celebration. I think you will enjoy learning about this important part of history and how it relates to pre civil war mail in our state.

Hope you will be there. Meet at Johnnie’s Charburger as usual at 6:00 or so for a meal, with the meeting at the college at 7:00.

Brady has added this interesting post:

I have about 500 or so duplicate Oklahoma covers, mostly 1920s and newer that I will be bringing to the meeting tomorrow. They are alphabetized by town. I’m going to sell them at $5 each. I know some are not worth $5, but some are worth much more. You be the judge. I’ll have them available at OKC stamp club too for the same price until our next postal history meeting. The next time we have Postal History meeting, the price will drop to $4 each for that meeting and following OKC stamp meetings until the next Postal History meeting. The price will drop again to $3 and so on until I get tired of toting them to meetings. You be the judge on whether to gamble if the cover you are interested in will be in the box the next time for $1 cheaper. I may decide to remove a cover or two between meetings, who knows. There will be no discounts at these spectacular prices. The fun is in the gamble if the cover will be around for long. If you want a discount, wait a month for the cheaper price, but you will risk it not being there later. Good luck and have fun.

OKPEX 2014 is coming soon, so you need to set aside both Friday & Saturday for Stamp Collecting fun.

Please note that the postcard we mailed out contained a typo on the dates. The show will be Friday & Saturday, June 20-21. You can click the links below to learn more about the show and the events that are on the schedule.

The regular meeting of the Oklahoma City Stamp Club will be tomorrow night. The doors open at 7:00 PM and the program will begin right after 7:30 PM.

The program is Ralph DeBoard’s talk on the Postal History of Tahiti. This is the same program he gave at the New York Collectors Club last month and is based on his National Gold Medal and International Vermeil Medal Exhibit. So Ralph not only knows his subject, he owns it as well.

This should be a really outstanding opportunity for all of us.

Here is a cover mailed by a – soon to be famous – young 2nd lieutenant

OKPEX 2014 is moving to JUNE since we lost our October lease on the Express Event Center (it is being sold). The show will be held on Fri-Sat, June 20-21, 2014 at the Reed Conference Center, 5800 Will Rogers Road, Midwest City, OK 73110, located off Interstate 40, just 5 miles east of downtown Oklahoma City. Dealer and Exhibitor setup will be on Thursday June 19. Our costs will go up slightly, but it is felt that it is better to have a nice place, with free parking, in a convenient location. This move will give OKPEX an opportunity to attract new participants and to increase in size over the coming years.

OKPEX NEW HOME

The Reed Conference Center, Midwest City, Okla.

This is a wonderful new facility that has a first floor room with 6000 sq. feet and 16 foot ceilings for the exhibits and the bourse. The registration, post office, and society booths will be in the large foyer/entryway. It is all carpeted, air conditioned, modern, clean, well-lighted, and has free parking. The Sheraton Hotel adjoins The Reed Conference Center. It has set aside a block of rooms with either king or twin double beds at the OKPEX rate of $99.00 which includes a 50% discount on breakfast. For reservations, call 405-455-1800, ask for reservations, and book your room at the OKPEX special rate. There are also several other motels within 1-2 blocks of the Reed Center, all with reasonable rates.

OKPEX SHOW HOTEL

Sheraton Midwest City Hotel at the Reed Conference Center

OKPEX has designated the Sheraton Hotel as its official show hotel, and will welcome visitors to a new hospitality suite there on Thursday and Friday evenings. The Awards Breakfast will also be held at the Sheraton on Saturday morning. We remain committed to keeping OKPEX the friendliest stamp show in the country. Plan now to rent a booth if you are a dealer, enter an exhibit if you are a WSP exhibitor and attend both days if you are a collector. We expect to have 16 dealers from 6 states bringing interesting material. Most will be our faithful dealers who have supported OKPEX for many years, but we will attract some new dealers as well with the change of date from October to June. The third weekend in June was selected to avoid conflicts with any other WSP shows and to make it convenient for all exhibitors and collectors who want to participate. The National Topical Stamp Show will be held the following weekend in St. Louis, MO.

We will have 115 competitive multi-frames and 10 competitive one-frame exhibits. Youth and single frame postcard exhibits can be shown in addition to these limits. The APS jury will be Mrs. Elizabeth M. Hizey of Florida, Chief, Judge; Dr. Mark E. Banchick of New York, Judge; and Jeffrey A. Switt of Texas, Judge.

The Oklahoma Philatelic Society will hold its annual meeting at OKPEX 2014. The Oklahoma Postal History Society will hold its June program meeting at OKPEX 2014. The local chapter of the American Topical Association will hold its 3rd OKPEX “Roundtable Meeting” and the American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors will hold an “Open Forum on Exhibiting” for exhibitors and those interested in becoming exhibitors. Any other philatelic groups who would like to hold regional or national meetings or programs at our new show venue are welcome; contact OKPEX chairman, Joe Crosby at joecrosby@cox.net. A marvelous separate meeting room is available right across the foyer from the OKPEX Exhibit Hall.

If you would like a Dealer Booth at OKPEX 2014 , please contact Joe Crosby, at joecrosby@cox.net. If you would like to exhibit at OKPEX 2014, please contact Ralph DeBoard, Exhibits Chairman at ralph.deboard@oc.edu. For the most current information about OKPEX, click the OKPEX tab above. We hope to see you at our new home in Midwest City, Oklahoma June 20-21, 2014.